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Norse Romance III
Final volume in three-volume set of translations of Arthurian romances from medieval Scandinavia. Hærra Ivan (Sir Ivan, the Knight with the Lion) is the first major work of fiction …
A Dictionary of Northern Mythology
Over 1700 entries cover mythology and religion of heathen Germanic tribes: Scandinavians, Goths, Angles and Saxons, 1500 BC-1000 AD. For two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC …
Mechthild of Magdeburg: Selections from The Flowing Light of the Godhead
Selections from this widely varied original mystical treatise offer insight into the lives of C13 female religious in northern Europe. Here is one of the great surprises of German …
Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX
The first nine books of Saxo Grammaticus's "The History of the Danes", recording the legendary kings and heroes of Denmark. This translation, with an introductory summary of the …
Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, …
Subaltern Medievalisms
A fresh new approach to Victorian medievalism, showing it to be far from the preserve of the elite. This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British …
Anglo-Saxon Saints' Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
A groundbreaking assessment of the use medieval English history-writers made of saints' lives. The past was ever present in later medieval England, as secular and religious …
The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain
An examination of the erotic in medieval literature which includes articles on the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression and religion and the …
Poly-Olbion: New Perspectives
First collection devoted to the Poly-Olbion, bringing out in particular its concerns with nature and the environment. Poly-Olbion (1612-1622), the collaborative work of the poet …
Arthurian Literature XXXII
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, …
The Manuscripts of Piers Plowman: the B-version
In-depth examination of the surviving medieval records of this great poem that stands at the beginning of the English tradition. Easy to use catalogue of the B-text manuscripts for …
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love and The Motherhood of God
Frances Beer chooses Julian's first, more intimate, "Revelations" on which to base this study of her life and work.